On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Matt Graham <[email protected]>wrote:
> From: JD Austin <[email protected]> > > I do the backup to usb using rsync method and it works well. > > One gotcha is that depending on where they plug it in it can be sda, > > sdc, sdd etc. I wrote a script to figure out where it is > > *Wrote a script*? > > /dev/disk/by-id/ , /dev/disk/by-uuid/ , and the -L option to mount > are probably better solutions for that. Movable disks get labels > written to their filesystems, unless they contain crypted FSes, > which means I have to fall back on /dev/disk/by-id/ . > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > Tried that.. doesn't work with Fat32 drives :) I wanted them to be able to just plug the drive into their computer if the fileserver failed.
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